Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God, With a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam

Rosenzweig, Franz; Glatzer, Nahum [Translator]; Putnam, Hilary [Introduction];

ISBN 10: 0674921194 / ISBN 13: 9780674921191

Editore: Harvard University Press, 1999

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Good paperback, excellent working copy. 1999 Harvard University Press printing. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. Underlining/margin marks on just a few pages, text is always readable. Light wear to covers. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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• Titolo: Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God, With a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674921194
• ISBN 13: 9780674921191
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 6 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Philosophy

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Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century’s great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible précis of his famous Star of Redemption. An elegant introduction to Rosenzweig’s “new thinking,” Understanding the Sick and the Healthy was written for a lay audience and takes the form of an ironic narrative about convalescence. With superb simplicity and beauty, it puts forth an important critique of the nineteenth-century German Idealist philosophical tradition and expresses a powerful vision of Jewish religion. Harvard’s Hilary Putnam provides a new introduction to this classic work for a contemporary audience.

“Today, more than three-quarters of a century after it was written, the critique of philosophy in this book is what makes it of such great interest. Critique of philosophy has been a central theme of twentieth-century philosophy, and many philosophers have attacked some of the targets that Rosenzweig attacked in his little book. Yet this early attack by a profound religious thinker is far more powerful and far more interesting than most.”—From the new Introduction by Hilary Putnam